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Birth Alternatives How Women Select Childbirth Care
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Sandra Howell-White
Book Code: GM9952
ISBN: 0-313-29952-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29952-0
184 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Sociology
Series Number: 123
Reviews:
  • Birth Alternatives is a good book for anyone interested in the medicalization of childbirth, the social construction of illness, and measuring the expectations of helping behaviors.
    —Health, Illness, and Medicine
Description: A woman's childbirth care choices have a profound effect on her pregnancy and childbirth experience. Today, some pregnant women have three different options to choose from: obstetrical care and a hospital birth, a midwife-assisted birth in a hospital, and a midwife-assisted birth at an out-of-hospital birthing center. By using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, this volume examines how and why 200 women made their choices, how satisfied they were with the care they received, and the impact of their choices on the availability of options in the future. Although most women in the U.S. still choose an obstetrician and a hospital setting, the number of women who choose to be assisted by a Certified Nurse Midwife is growing, with the result that this profession is acquiring new strength and jurisdiction over childbirth care.
Table of Contents:
  • The Importance of Choice
  • Conception
  • Prenatal Care
  • The Traditional Birth
  • The "Natural" Birth
  • The Great Compromise
  • After the Birth
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 98-30491
LCC Class: RG525
Dewey Class: 618
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